Awesome WM & NM Applet: Secret Service Operation Failed
Posted: May 15th, 2010 | Author: Rob Searles | Filed under: Linux | CommentsI am running Awesome window manager on Lucid Lynx and am using the Network Manager applet to manage my wireless connection. There is a strange error that manes that the wireless can never remember my key.
When I initiate the nm_applet from a terminal it displays the following error:
** Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
After some searching around on the internets I found a hack that seems to fix the problem.
What you have to do is edit the /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.keyring.service file, comment out where it says Name=org.gnome.keyring
and add the line
Name=org.freedesktop.secrets
For example, my /usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.keyring.service file looks like this:
[D-BUS Service] #Name=org.gnome.keyring Name=org.freedesktop.secrets Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon --start --foreground --components=secrets
Save this, then you’re done.
